This medieval earthwork is part of a broader archaeological landscape that includes a ringfort 200 metres to the southwest and an unclassified castle 450 metres to the southeast. Though the monument now appears as little more than a cropmark on modern aerial photographs, its outline remains clearly visible in images from the 1960s, revealing the ghostly footprint of what was once a substantial defensive structure.

When surveyed in 1970, archaeologists found a rectangular enclosure measuring roughly 25 metres northwest to southeast and 30 metres northeast to southwest. The site is defined by a well-preserved earth and stone bank with steep external slopes, particularly pronounced on the eastern and western sides. A narrow entrance gap, just 1.9 metres wide, breaks through the bank at the east-northeast corner, where a 2-metre-wide causeway crosses the surrounding fosse, or defensive ditch. This carefully planned entrance would have controlled access to the interior whilst maintaining the site’s defensive capabilities.

Within the enclosure, traces of a sub-rectangular structure are visible in the southwest quadrant, likely the remains of a medieval house. These moated sites, common across Ireland and Britain during the 13th and 14th centuries, served as fortified homesteads for Anglo-Norman settlers and prosperous farmers. The combination of the water-filled moat, raised banks, and controlled access point would have provided both practical defence and a clear statement of status in the medieval landscape. Today, while the monument may be barely perceptible from ground level, aerial photography continues to reveal its form, preserving this piece of Westmeath’s medieval heritage in the landscape’s memory.